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unisyc Posted Jun 13, 2006
Well, I've always worked on the assumption that the whole of Physics is pretty dodgy.
The fact that we're told in astronomy labs that errors in astronomy can go up to 50% doesn't really help, though...
It's sort of like ignoring air resistance, isn't it? I always thought that dodgy.
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Runescribe Posted Jun 14, 2006
Particularly odd, the dismissal of air resistance. Especially when doing mechanics, and calculating exactly where you should drop the politically correct 'aid parcel' to hit the target. I'm sure bombs - sorry, aid parcels - are not invisible to the air.
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unisyc Posted Jun 16, 2006
LOL. Ah, so true, although I think they do it as much as for our sanity as their own. It's bad enough having to go through all the air resistance calculation for the students, but just imagine correcting it!
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Runescribe Posted Jun 16, 2006
Ugh, what a horrible thought. But surely they must teach it at some point - after all, things do get dropped from aeroplanes. Parachutes exist.
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unisyc Posted Jun 17, 2006
Nah, parachutes are just theoretical objects conjured up by those misguided enough to want to fly.
Air resistance only gets taken into consideration after about 2nd/3rd year here, just to make it a bit easier for the 1st-years.
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Runescribe Posted Jun 17, 2006
That may in fact not be unwise - making it easy for the first-years helps prevent them from running away in despair.
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unisyc Posted Jun 20, 2006
Very true, although almost three-quarters of the class disappears between first and second year.
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unisyc Posted Jun 21, 2006
Well, I do live in Australia, land of sport and sensationalisation (Want to know what I mean? Go to yahoo7.com.au - it's the website of the Seven Network, an annoyingly sensationalised commercial TV network).
The thing is that first year Physics is needed for a lot of IT courses, but later years aren't, hence the high level of drop-outs.
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Runescribe Posted Jun 21, 2006
That does indeed explain the alarming rate of dropouts.
And hey! England is the land of sport! We invent all the best games. Of course, we then proceed to lose miserably...
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unisyc Posted Jun 22, 2006
LOL. Sorry, but I keep forgetting that you're in England. There's another conversation I'm part of, but the person whom I'm speaking to is in Germany so I keep getting your locations confused.
Well, you won in '66, didn't you? Maybe you could do it again in the football this year.
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Runescribe Posted Jun 24, 2006
We did indeed win - forty years ago. I gather (I actually take no interest in the football) that we are in the last sixteen, but I also gather we have lost one of our best players, so our winning seems increasingly unlikely.
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unisyc Posted Jun 26, 2006
You have? I must admit that I've mostly been just following the Socceroos' journey.
I'm not a sporting person myself. I used to swim and the only sport I really play is badminton. I don't even follow Australia's national game, the AFL (jokingly referred to as football - it's more or less rugby with slightly stupider players). I only follow proper football.
Do you play any sports?
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Runescribe Posted Jun 26, 2006
I play absolutely no sports, unless net-surfing counts.
On an entirely different subject, and simply because I am happy - I JUST FINISHED SCHOOL!
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unisyc Posted Jun 30, 2006
Congratulations! Now where's that smiley for some bubbly? I'm very tempted to get you something, despite that fact that you're 10 hours behind me.
Odd how words can never truly express feeling, isn't it? "Congrats" doesn't say much... But congrats nonetheless.
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